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He is British. You know the relationship between Britain and EU. While the sanction does have significant effect on Europeans as well, France and Germany are the ones bearing the blunt of the backlash, hence why the British is happy.

I didn't discuss agriculture sector because the main determining factor for agriculture sector's size is the nation's population. Sure, if the country has too little farmable land like Japan or Korea, then the sector can be small even though the country has a large population, but obviously that...

India's economic structure is actually a bit strange. Indian economy growth sectors and significant opportunities Here is the GDP composition by sector from BRIC nations: Brazil: Brazil GDP - composition by sector - Economy Russia: Russia GDP - composition by sector - Economy India: India GDP...

You need to fix the title. Her prize is in medicine, not the Nobel joke, I mean peace prize.

Fraud is fraud. That is a crime. However, here is your original words: "many professors have to lobby for research funds and they are awarded not on merit, but on guanxi." I am simply pointing out that instead of implying social relationship as a mystical term by using a sound translation of...

To the opposition, of course, but then again Assad also have plenty of supporters. This is the entire reason there is a civil war in the first place----both side got supporters, neither side is backing down and violence is used as the solution.

Erm, are you actually surprised? Guanxi means social relationship. This is how university around the world gather funding for research. There is a reason why US universities, engineering schools in particular, recommend students to work in the industry first to build up personal contact and...

Well, that is theoretically true, but then again Bashar and Russia haven't rolled over in the past decade, they are not likely to do now. Also, you need to consider that for any government to maintain legitimacy, rolling over and run and hopefully the enemy collapsed on itself is not a strategy...

Simple run down in post-WWII European politics: France being its obstinate self, Britain sticking its finger in places finger doesn't belong, Italy and Spain pretend it matters, North Europe chill on the side lines and at the end of the day Germany is left holding the bag.

A shame really. China's basketball team performs pretty well in both genders. The ladies' soccer team does pretty well in soccer as well. I guess it is just that China man's soccer team that sucks.

Of course, though, my personal complain is that everything cool is always 30 years away. :p: (Not surprising really, research is an incremental effort. People are way less sensitive to gradual changes than sudden and abrupt ones) Lots of companies right now are work on battery. One of the main...

Also, Syria is not Iraq or Afghanistan. It is one of the last bastion of influence Russia has in Middle East. The fact that Russia recently demonstrated in Ukraine that they are not afraid to get their hands dirty is a large deterrent to direct military intervention by US. The original 2011...

Hmm, we will see. My advisor just announced a new conference for southeastern power companies coming up in November 6th, a day after my FE exam, lol. The key to make solar (and other renewables to a lesser degree) more useful isn't actually in power system operation, but in storage. Once mass...

A lot of the opposition force is ISIS. Bashar's best chance is actually to hold out against ISIS advance long enough for it to fragment and start attacking something else. Also, elections fix nothing at all, especially between Saudi and Iran. Basically, for Saudi Arabia, the only fair election...

I am from power systems. I have regular meetings and conference regarding to these. Currently, research in the power consists of essentially two things: 1) renewable and related 2) How to keep old things working. Pragmatically, both of these really comes down to money. This is not actually a...

The main force of influence in Middle East, as well as the main cause of its problems is US. Europe and Russia both have limited influence. Well, the Russians used to have a great deal of it during USSR days. China's influence is mostly economic in nature and frankly only cares whether the other...

Resource exporting is a mixed game. As long as you got resource, then there will always be someone that want it. On the other hand, you can also forget any chance of being a great power. This is because with resource exporting, your economic foundation pretty much depend on other people's state...

K, just got back home. Continuing on my thought in the morning. Now, I need to first clarify that political landscape is a ever shifting thing. My statement of most likely to change is particularly aimed at changes caused by China-US interaction. Other region's politics can still change...

To be honest, the paradigm is hardly "new". It is more of the age old practice of "if you can't beat them, join them." Unlike the US-USSR relationship during the cold war. The China-US relationship today did not split the global community as cleanly as the cold war. Nations are much more...

It is actually not possible for India to remain totally subservient to US and remain in one piece. US foreign policy since WWII has always been breaking down sufficient large foreign power into smaller components and failing that, support regional/internal rivals to lock said power into a...